HOW THE WAIRARAPA WAS PURCHASED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1295, 5 February 1883, Page 2

HOW THE WAIRARAPA WAS PURCHASED.

l' (flru® jlhe Wairarapa Msroury of 1870). i i i v '.)lolD TiTTtoU Lis »rrf o:si) s 'vT|e purchase of t{}B iower^rt^a.o| ; %e Yaljey v§s coricluded i ' Yarious iettlers bad prej. been residing there, and it was r |as|hpir |Tfe'tykjwas [ j anOwera r' wKo is; Bpofeea <rf ttf "w intelligent : young chief (we hope he won't ty too

•proud).was the principal claimant, and to cniefly induced to relinquish his - to have a Crown Grant for' a piece of land suated by the; Lake and Turangaiiui rivers. Howasoneofthi first who sold, and his example: was | soon followed by other chiefs. He is spoken of as. having possessed in iv 1853„,„. Sheep/i rirweefcafter- 95j000:':: acria.r were bought, and this block included : Mr A. McMaster's homestead at was again the same figrue--one thousand pounds —the natives Vappeafir,tai haver* blocks of land indiscriminately at the same ; pnce,' and their ideas seem to have been limited to {this,.. < . The next purchto refeoriM u' Huingaroa hqraeifeMj]thM\termed' Smith and Tully's station, ; For BQojMres,i,where .i)now resides the Hon Mr Waterhouse, XIOO wag paid and Mr MoLean re-,., .tnarks tlijft' "ovw'i^OOO 11 h4d' f tK«ia u> ' be«n ezpended in the improvements on %,establishment' 1 ; ; ;We;majr l vleayk:i A the;.' Lower Valley, and watch how rapidly Mr MoLean purchased. ■!/ ■" : lr J : v:: f ."it>ft'*r>*.f V>

Three hundred; thousand :aore», extinding to the Waingahawa river; were purchased for >63)000. , f Twp; pencei hsJf peimtfankf fuire'for 'the Bush", Greytow'nJ Cav^erto^ T jwd j|the. >. Tar/itahilii WoiiVdiany- Natives-even the'inlelligent young^ief'OElaniera—have dreamfc that theywould live to sea their two-penny half-penny land realizing in some instaiicM over j£l2o^ afterwards 3ent* on is" 5, surprising;. Ngairo was actually. onca (/; :'!attemp'fing tosßbll T? I. been already .purchased." Tujitfrupuru and Te Kopi were sold in one block of raki. containing acres," was •boughtior Manaia; 6i500 aores, cost ; Matapihi; con-tdining-15,000 acres, vcost <£7ooj7off'. , i 'aoraMjoiinnj^^^ lives, co3t £4OO, which b» i. ,r. v •The liQffles'teftds'of soioiie other old ' ?t ' settlers were-paid''forthe ' . that the Government were 1 ' blocks' oijjy to those .fyhose•/; v in the ■ cleetls of; sale..;Ti' 6ire. i _ Ore was to be sold to .no oiie. but Mr Collins,, and• ttf^'^ L | Mr:; - 'rnont^' Ve r© a d ,pi thei pr'oposiid.cession'ioi;sfj ; Castle Poiut : and the' Mastertoii now iß'was.then In Captain ; 1 ?' tiation' was. ; placed,apd JMr.; warns he' believes ,; ". the ! '- |-' ,, f retenres wareware;" arid { ne ; is i tOld--U ) infofm? them, that" it ig > t o: confer with lnm (McLfAn) before > ;consentifig'/; totho proposed arrangements," The site wlieve. _Fejitl\eraton. „now ..stands was sold in 1853, as a block of 19,000 acres, for £I,OOO. This included Bur- ; Ring's homestead of acres and Featherstonians may boast that their Ikd dost more than any )Ve* H J «; have yet excepted. Negotiations which had thus continued uninterruptedly fqriupwards of .aiyear, '■ were suddenly broken oft by lie ser* , theNorlhiindltwaS;' not. !iintil J Mj;' .»*}. ,i§ss,'thati,we fin<ith£ fidentioiv .ciftde.i il .' <)f \ •■.'■i..Vist' ,•!:<< ?>■>'■{ ,Ml(V) ; ''.yr. fn'HUt v/:>, inw Although twpv. blocks of land , been purchwed by the Crown' W • cumber, apid :fOr ; f jiaid, jtlili ! s set^em^i'.!yM/[<n^ . JjarpU 4801,1. ty-.i sum 0Mi55,j:05;r representß'>'ther whole amount paid ■ fir.tiia'iargij^ u t" tribt; J ■ A . trance of the Whareaina river wasrei served :for . the' natives, and it was I leased; by Mr Meredith for„ 1 years at perl ann'tim,. the r Point block, A Cohtaiuing 300,0D0 'acrei* cost £2,soo,,twopence, an:acre. Pre- | vious to this purchase Mr Guthrie was fc ;payipg,ananjiualrent o|nearly> '£2oo.